Revaluing Care Lab · Fall 2025 Program
The Revaluing Care Lab presents its Fall 2025 programming across three strands: the Working Papers Seminar Series, Care Conversations, and Composting Theory. Together, these initiatives explore care through feminist theory, political economy, ecological practice, and collaborative scholarship.
WORKING PAPERS SEMINAR SERIES
A forum for early- and mid‑career scholars to share works in progress in dialogue with experts in care studies. Unless noted, events are online.
Women’s Work and Care in Argentina
Wednesday, September 17 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET · Online
Presenter: Mariana Brocca (Universidad de Buenos Aires), “Back to the Future? Women’s Work and Social Organization of Care in Argentina’s ‘New’ Neoliberalism Era”
Respondent: Elisabeth Jay Friedman (University of San Francisco)
Gender‑Equitable Growth
Wednesday, September 24 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET · Online
Presenter: Aashima Sinha (Levy Economics Institute), “The Road to Gender‑Equitable Growth: A State‑level Analysis of Social Reproduction in the U.S.”
Respondent: Elissa Braunstein (Colorado State University)
Reproductive Justice and Economics
Wednesday, October 1 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET · Online
Presenter: Deb Machado Nunes (Monmouth University), “Building Reproductive Justice as a Research Program in Economics”
Respondent: Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Informal Care in Southern Europe
Monday, October 20 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET · Online
Presenter: Melanie Sara Palermo (University of Macerata), “Revaluing Care in Southern Europe: Gendered Dynamics and the Challenges of Informal Care on Occupation”
Respondent: Cindy L. Cain (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Urban Care in Bogotá (Bilingual Seminar)
Wednesday, October 22 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET · Online
Presenters: Juan David Cardozo Terreros & Lucía Rojas (Instituto de Estudios Urbanos)
Paper: “Las Manzanas del Cuidado y los Modelos de Gobernanza Local: La Política de Cuidado como un Nuevo Escenario de la Ciudad de Bogotá”
Respondent: Stephen Healy (Western Sydney University)
Cooperatives and Care
Wednesday, November 5 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET · Online
Presenters: Cecilia Cornaggia (Catholic University, Milan), Chiara Ferrari (Catholic University, Milan), Eliana Debia (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Paper: “The Social and Cultural Role of Cooperative Organizations: Reflections from the Thought of Martha Beatrice Webb”
Respondents: Mo Moulton (University of Birmingham ) & Giandomenica Becchio (University of Turin)
Chapter in Progress (Workshop)
Thursday, November 6 · 12:00–1:30 PM ET · In person, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith Warehouse (Bay 4)
Presenter: Terrion Williamson, pre‑circulated chapter workshop on the book in progress
“The Unreckoned: Black Women, Serial Murder, and the Decline of the All-American City”
Led by: Jennifer C. Nash
Co‑sponsored: FHI, GSF
The Power of Data in Care
Wednesday, November 12 · 4:45–6:15 PM ET · Online
Presenter: Julia Kowalski (University of Notre Dame), “‘The Power of Data’: Value and Quantification in Producing Care Work as a Policy Object”
Respondent: Durba Mitra (Harvard University)
CARE CONVERSATIONS SERIES
Conversations with authors whose work reframes care across labor, gender, race, disability, and social justice. Events take place in Smith Warehouse, Bay 4.
Book Conversation with Lina‑María Murillo
Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US‑Mexico Borderlands (UNC Press)
Friday, September 26 · 12:00–1:30 PM ET · Room C106
In conversation with: Sally Deutsch
Co‑sponsored: FHI, History Hub, LSGS, GSF
Book Conversation with Emma Amador
The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice (Duke University Press)
Wednesday, October 8 · 5:00–6:30 PM ET · Lecture Hall (Bay 4)
In conversation with: Cecilia Marquez
Co‑sponsored: FHI, GSF, History Hub
Book Conversation with Jina Kim
Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip‑of‑Color Writing (Duke University Press)
Wednesday, October 29 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET · Lecture Hall (Bay 4)
In conversation with: Emily Rogers
Co‑sponsored: FHI, GSF, History Hub, Disability Studies Working Group
COMPOSTING THEORY: ECOLOGICAL CARE IN PRACTICE
A workshop series with the Revaluing Care Lab and the Duke Campus Farm. Each session pairs a short, shared reading with hands‑on ecological practice and discussion. Sessions take place at the Duke Campus Farm.
Childcare availability TBD. Advanced undergraduates may inquire at saskia.cornes@duke.edu.
Saturday, October 25 · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM · Duke Campus Farm
Aula Verde (Tree Room) – A Method for Climate Justice
with the visual artist and engineer Andrea Conte
Saturday, November 15 · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM · Duke Campus Farm
Mushroom Inoculation – Growing Wonder
Readings: Anna Tsing
Alicia Girón
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